Alessandro Molina has been a Python developer since 2001, and has always been interested in Python as a web development platform. He has worked as a CTO and a team leader of Python teams for the past 10 years and is currently the core developer of the TurboGears2 web framework and maintainer of Beaker Caching/Session framework. He authored the DEPOT file storage framework and the DukPy JavaScript interpreter for Python and has collaborated with various Python projects related to web development, such as FormEncode, ToscaWidgets, and the Ming MongoDB ORM.
To Stefania for constantly supporting me through the late nights and pushing me to write one paragraph when I felt like slacking, without her continuous support I would have never finished this book.
To the Python community, for being such a great and positive environment where discussions can flourish within respect for each other and to all Python conferences organizers for giving us a great chance to discuss our ideas with other great developers in front of a cold beer.
Simone Marzola is a software engineer and technical lead with 10 years of experience. He is passionate about Python and machine learning, which lead him to be an active contributor in open source communities such as Mozilla Services and Pylons Project, and involved in European conferences as a speaker. Simone has been a lecturer on the Big Dive data science and machine learning course. He is currently a CTO and Scrum Master at Oval Money.
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